I'd Have Been Out of Jail By Now by Waylon Jennings
Key: DD | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stew 
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When a stranger walked in, stood there beside me, and plopped down there like a fool 
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He started drinkin' then he started talkin' 'bout things that were wrong in his life 
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The more that I heard, the more I believed, the thing that was wrong was his wife 
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He said you talk about beauty, when we first met she was all that a man could desire 
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Talk about love, one night with her would set your very soul afire 
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But love's little flame is out of control, 'bout 3 feet high from behind 
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Since we've been married I've come to believe that love is of the dumb and the blind, no offense 
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You talk about ugly, when she gets mad, she goes from Jekyll to Hyde 
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She grits her teeth, then her eyes roll back, pivot from side to side 
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She completely rewrites the whole English language, 4-letter, descriptive and loud 
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Now I can't out-think her, but I can sure out-drink her, and that's what I'm doin' here now 
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'Cause I've spent 7 years with the wrong woman 
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Seven and goin' on eight 
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She spent 7 years naggin' and eatin' 
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I'm over-wrought and she's overweight 
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If I try leavin' she has me arrested 
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Takes her own sweet time gettin' me out 
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If she ain't number 1, she's in the top 2 
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Of the things I could live without 
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Men commit murder and all kinds of mayhem 
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In a few years they're back on the street 
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Highway robbery and white collar crime 
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And they laugh at the system they reap 
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Sometimes I'm tempted, sometimes I'm ashamed 
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Of the things the law will allow 
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I coulda killed her when I first met her 
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And I'd a been out of jail by now